25 Facts About Erwin Chemerinsky

Erwin Chemerinsky was born on May 14,1953 and is an American legal scholar known for his studies of US constitutional law and federal civil procedure.

Since 2017, Chemerinsky has been the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law.

Erwin Chemerinsky was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.

In 2021 Erwin Chemerinsky was named President-elect of the Association of American Law Schools.

Erwin Chemerinsky grew up in a working-class Jewish family in the South Side of Chicago and attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools for high school.

Erwin Chemerinsky studied communications at Northwestern University, where he competed on the debate team.

Erwin Chemerinsky then attended Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.

In 1980, Erwin Chemerinsky was hired as an assistant professor of law at DePaul University College of Law.

Erwin Chemerinsky moved to the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California in 1983.

Erwin Chemerinsky taught at USC from 1983 to 2004, then joined the faculty of Duke University School of Law.

In 2008, Erwin Chemerinsky was named the inaugural dean of the newly established University of California, Irvine School of Law.

Erwin Chemerinsky has authored sixteen books, including a constitutional law textbook, and over two hundred law review articles.

Erwin Chemerinsky writes a regular column for the Sacramento Bee and a monthly column for the ABA Journal and Los Angeles Daily Journal, and frequently pens op-eds for prominent newspapers across the country.

Erwin Chemerinsky notably served on a panel within the Los Angeles Police Department, tasked with investigating the Rampart Scandal, and participated in a commission examining irregularities in city contracting processes.

In 1995, Chemerinsky provided commentary on the O J Simpson trial for several media outlets, including KCBS-TV, KNX, and CBS News.

Erwin Chemerinsky thinks that even if an individual's right to bear arms exists, the District of Columbia was justified in restricting that right because it believed that the law would lessen violence.

Erwin Chemerinsky represents a client held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

Erwin Chemerinsky, referring to the heckler's veto, asserted that their protest was a form of punishable civil disobedience and not protected by the First Amendment.

Erwin Chemerinsky responded to the Berkeley Law community that Solomon's op-ed was free speech, even if it included language that others found "deeply offensive", while noting that Solomon expressed a personal opinion and did not speak for the law school.

Erwin Chemerinsky wrote a Los Angeles Times op-ed denouncing antisemitism on college campuses, describing antisemitic remarks directed at him personally, strongly opposing the policies of the Netanyahu government, supporting "full rights for Palestinians", and affirming free speech for students and school administrators alike.

Some alumni criticized Erwin Chemerinsky's op-ed, saying it ignored anti-Palestinian racism faced by Berkeley Law students.

Erwin Chemerinsky's hiring as dean of the UCI School of Law was controversial.

Drake traveled over a weekend to meet with Erwin Chemerinsky in Durham, North Carolina, where he was a professor at the Duke University School of Law at the time, and the two reached an agreement late Sunday evening.

Erwin Chemerinsky was first married to Marcy Strauss, a professor at Loyola Law School.

Erwin Chemerinsky later married Catherine Fisk, the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law.